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« Reply #570 on: May 03, 2009, 04:58:21 PM » |
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It gets better...
"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
That's right. That's exactly what women ultimately need.
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« Reply #571 on: May 03, 2009, 05:15:08 PM » |
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It gets better...
"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
That's right. That's exactly what women ultimately need.
Yep, any serpents that show up around here, I'm sending Mr. Mer out to deal with them. On the other hand, Mr. Mer is susceptible to a good sales pitch so perhaps that's not the best action after all. I'm confused. Are women lusting temptresses or fainting violets who need to be protected by a big strong man? Or are women lusting temptresses who need protection to keep from throwing themselves on the men? |
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« Reply #572 on: May 03, 2009, 05:42:12 PM » |
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It gets better...
"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
That's right. That's exactly what women ultimately need.
Man, she had me until that last part. So close. |
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« Reply #573 on: May 03, 2009, 07:36:00 PM » |
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It gets better...
"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
That's right. That's exactly what women ultimately need.
A possibility is that the student doesn't understand how hard it is to make sarcasm clear in written work. Perhaps he/she is trying to be sarcastic? I would ask the student to clarify. I had this problem as a student, when I waxed sarcastic on essays. Better grades resulted from waning sarcastic, so perhaps you should "wane" on the student's parade. |
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« Reply #574 on: May 03, 2009, 11:03:01 PM » |
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"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
Um...I'm pretty sure I got this paper (or at least this paragraph) waaaay back when I was teaching Intro to the Humanities--which was from 1997-2000. And no, I'm not kidding; I only wish I were. |
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« Reply #575 on: May 03, 2009, 11:50:31 PM » |
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"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
Um...I'm pretty sure I got this paper (or at least this paragraph) waaaay back when I was teaching Intro to the Humanities--which was from 1997-2000. And no, I'm not kidding; I only wish I were. Wow. |
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« Reply #576 on: May 04, 2009, 04:11:50 AM » |
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We also, sadly, suffer from the ineradicable conviction of our students that anything longer than a short lyric, whatever its form or genre, is a novel.
Hmm. I have yet to hear any physical science or engineering students call our texts novels, but I suspect that is merely a result of my limited experience. They do recognise textbooks as different than novels. But in my discipline any article that is a part of a collection they consider, and occasionally cite, as written by the book's editor. Every monograph they refer to as a novel. |
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« Reply #577 on: May 04, 2009, 05:16:28 AM » |
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perhaps she was trying for irony (caution - really old interthreaduality) It gets better...
"Adam does not show any leadership skills and but rather follows along like a stray puppy dog, but some how in the end gets to be superior to women. Not to mention, God does not even condemn Adam for listening to his wife instead of taking his own actions against the serpent, nor is he condemned for not protecting his wife - which is what women ultimately need, right?"
That's right. That's exactly what women ultimately need.
A possibility is that the student doesn't understand how hard it is to make sarcasm clear in written work. Perhaps he/she is trying to be sarcastic? I would ask the student to clarify. I had this problem as a student, when I waxed sarcastic on essays. Better grades resulted from waning sarcastic, so perhaps you should "wane" on the student's parade. |
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« Reply #578 on: May 04, 2009, 10:59:39 AM » |
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perhaps she was trying for irony (caution - really old interthreaduality)
And one of my favorite old threads - thanks for the reminder, Rowan! |
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« Reply #579 on: May 04, 2009, 11:17:10 AM » |
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Okay, only two of these are actually "sentences"--though student punctuated each of them as if they were: Pirates the scum of the earth or best lubricant for an economic system?
When talking about pirates most people often see an image set forth by Hollywood movies and do not actually know the true face of a pirate.
When the world of commerce and the political policies are looked at closely it is evident that during the transition from the Levant Merchants to the East India Company. Something about the phrase "the true face of a pirate" delights me. |
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« Reply #580 on: May 04, 2009, 11:23:49 AM » |
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perhaps she was trying for irony (caution - really old interthreaduality)
In one of the assignments I graded last night, the student praised the book's use of irony. Unfortunately, she neglected to specify exactly what was ironic about the book (and I must say, irony is not the first descriptor that pops into my mind when I think about the book: nowhere does it even mention rain on someone's wedding day). It appears to be a case of "Prof. t_r_b has used this word repeatedly in class, so if I put it in my writing assignment, I'll get extra points, right?" Um, not right. |
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If you want to be zen, then stay in the freaking moment.
A lot of the people posting on this thread need to go out and get kohlrabi.
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« Reply #581 on: May 04, 2009, 11:32:14 AM » |
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perhaps she was trying for irony (caution - really old interthreaduality)
In one of the assignments I graded last night, the student praised the book's use of irony. Unfortunately, she neglected to specify exactly what was ironic about the book (and I must say, irony is not the first descriptor that pops into my mind when I think about the book: nowhere does it even mention rain on someone's wedding day). It appears to be a case of "Prof. t_r_b has used this word repeatedly in class, so if I put it in my writing assignment, I'll get extra points, right?" Um, not right. How ironic. |
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« Reply #582 on: May 04, 2009, 12:27:53 PM » |
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perhaps she was trying for irony (caution - really old interthreaduality)
In one of the assignments I graded last night, the student praised the book's use of irony. Unfortunately, she neglected to specify exactly what was ironic about the book (and I must say, irony is not the first descriptor that pops into my mind when I think about the book: nowhere does it even mention rain on someone's wedding day). It appears to be a case of "Prof. t_r_b has used this word repeatedly in class, so if I put it in my writing assignment, I'll get extra points, right?" Um, not right. How ironic. True. I should probably use this example in class next semester to illustrate the concept. |
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If you want to be zen, then stay in the freaking moment.
A lot of the people posting on this thread need to go out and get kohlrabi.
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« Reply #583 on: May 04, 2009, 12:54:05 PM » |
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Okay, only two of these are actually "sentences"--though student punctuated each of them as if they were: Pirates the scum of the earth or best lubricant for an economic system?
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Do the pirates become the lubricant for the economic system when they get squished between the gears of commerce? |
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« Reply #584 on: May 04, 2009, 01:09:19 PM » |
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In a definition of polygamy: "When a man has multiple wives. Say I was married to a woman, if she couldn't have kids I would sleep with someone until I did have children. Then I would have a bondage with the children and their mother."
This is wrong on so very many levels...
Same student defining sexual dimorphism: "when you go through a state of change." I guess for some folks that's true, but still, it's wrong in the context of the class...
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